I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.

真正的艺术总是在完美与不完美之间行走。

I'm not a time, I'm a space.

The monument is a fixed point in the changing city.

最可持续的建筑是人们喜爱和关心的建筑。

Art should disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed.

现实不是发生在我们身上的事情，而是我们对发生的事情的理解。